Maxime Du Camp
MAXIME DU CAMP
"View of Second Cataract the Nile"
1850, salt print, paper negative, ca. 1850
8 1/4 x 6 1/2. |
MAXIME DU CAMP
"Porte D'Oree, Jerusalem"
1850, calotype, ca. 1850s
9 1/16 x 6 3/16, Titled, artist's name.
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MAXIME DU CAMP
"Rive Oriental du Nil, Nubie"
1849-50, calotype
6 1/4 x 8. |
MAXIME DU CAMP
Nubie, Ibsamboul, Colosse Orientale du Spéos, 1850, salt print, paper negative, ca. 1850, 8 1/8 x 6 1/2. |
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Maxime Du Camp, France, 1882-1894
Du Camp learned calotyping from Gustave Le Gray and in 1849 persuaded the French Ministry of Education to send him on a photographic tour of archeological sites, accompanied by the novelist Gustave Flaubert. Du Camp focused on photographing the pyramids, the sphinx and other Egyptian monuments. On their twenty-one-month tour, Du Camp made 220 calotypes, 125 of which were printed by Louis-Desire Blanquart-Evrard and published as Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie, the first book about the Middle East illustrated with actual photographs. After his return, Du Camp gave up photography and devoted his time to writing.
From: Lee Witkin and Barbara London's The Photograph Collector's Guide, New York Graphic Society, Little Brown & Co., 1979.
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